The network consisted of 3 rooftop meboxes together with various indoor units providing a stable backbone, with multiple roaming meshboxen (in cars, on foot, and on rollerblades!!) filling the gaps of coverage between the Berlin Conference centre, and c-base (the oldest crashed spaceship on earth!). The topology diagram represents the self-formed routing mesh between each meshbox.

the amazing tiny meshbox

Each tiny meshbox features 2 wireless interfaces, one to join the MANET mesh, and the other used as a classic access point for non-meshed wireless clients (essid: freifunk.net).

The mesh works suprisingly well, although Andreas has his work cut out in some debugging, as some members of the OLSR mesh occasionally lost their routing tables causing the mesh to briefly lose contact now and again.

Rixter is considering making a bulk purchase of meshcubes. Those of you who attended DMZ at Limehouse last year will have seen this nice little dual-radio mesh router/bridge/access point device. http://www.meshcube.org/english/specs.html Send email to richardagreen@gmail.com with something like "Yes - definitely", "Maybe - depending on the price you get", or "probably not, but keep me posted" in the subject line.

PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO HARD TO SHOW THEIR INGENUITY none (#4)by fakir005 on Wed Nov 2nd, 2005 at 22:05:29 GMT(User Info)

This is an example of showing ingenuity. Already cellphones exist for making cellular communications with their complete set of towers. So why the need for a meshed communication system or wi-Fi hot spots. But what is needed is the development of technbology that will make it unnecessary for the servers to send documents to the clients upon the receipt of a request therefor from the client as discussed at
http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.com
When this technology is developed people will not need to buy laptops and cellphones. Only cellphones will do.

It's truly amazing that this mesh thing is working. It will be very interesting to see what it'll be like when he's finished with the project.Violet, IT Freelancer currently working on the colon cleanse project.